EU opens probe into Musk's Grok over sexual AI deepfakes

The Grok Imagine website is seen on an iPad (in the foreground) and a computer screen on Jan 26, 2026 in Miami, Florida. The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X over concerns its AI tool Grok was used to create sexualised images of real people. — AFP

BRUSSELS, Belgium: The EU on Jan 26 hit Elon Musk's X with an investigation over AI chatbot Grok's generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors, in the latest step of an international backlash against the tool.

Grok faces an outcry after it emerged that users could sexualise images of women and children using simple text prompts such as "put her in a bikini" or "remove her clothes".